Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

Chapter 363: Chapter 160: “This is definitely releasing the tiger back to the mountain!”_4
 

“Hm?”

Chen Qiu tilted his head towards the middle-aged man running toward him, his brows slightly furrowed. He remembered this man, the one who had dug him out of the snow and had left fifty low-grade Spirit Stones as a token of his gratitude before leaving.

He didn’t think too much about it at the moment.

His Divine Sense encompassed the entirety of Desperate Town, immediately sensing a chaotic area. With just a wave of his hand, Spiritual Energy enveloped the bearded middle-aged man, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared inside a stone house.

This room was the very one he had lain in before.

At this moment, a slightly overweight middle-aged woman was almost beaten to death, curled up in the corner trembling like a sieve. Inside the house, seven or eight young, sturdy men, also covered in wounds, lay in another corner, barely breathing more than they were exhaling.

“Speak! Where are the rest of your Spirit Stones?!”

Outside the stone house, standing were some ten menacing strong men wielding sharp blades. One bald, burly man, currently holding a long sword at the doorway, sneered word by word, “I know you have more Spirit Stones. I’m only after wealth, not your lives.”

“Tell me where the Spirit Stones came from. It’s a simple matter, isn’t it?”

“After all, you ‘Changbai Mountain Team’ are said to be the strongest hunters around here, you shouldn’t mind this small amount of Spirit Stones. As long as you survive, you can quickly earn them back, can’t you?”

“Your captain has already been beaten half to death and thrown outside the town. With this weather, if you don’t save him, he won’t last an hour. Choose between the Spirit Stones and your captain’s life!”

Just then—

Chen Qiu, tired of the nonsense, let his aura of Golden Core Peak Great Perfection Cultivation envelop them. Instantly, all the previously menacing strong men outside were overwhelmed, pressed to the ground in fear, unable to move their bodies at all.

For a Golden Core Peak to kill a Foundation Establishment Cultivator was truly no different than stepping on an ant.

“Imm… Immortal.”

Apparently, the leading bald burly man was slightly stronger than the rest. He looked up at Chen Qiu coming towards him with terror-filled eyes, his voice trembling word by word, “Randomly slaughtering mortals… incurs divine retribution…”

…

Chen Qiu glanced at the burly man, uninterested in responding. He pulled out several Healing Pills from his robe and flicked them into the mouths of the injured inside the house, then turned his head to the man who had once dug him out from Snow Mountain and frowned, “What’s going on?”

“I…”

The bearded man, his eyes red and bloodshot, hoarsely said, “That day, Immortal, you left me fifty low-grade Spirit Stones and left. I took the Spirit Stones home. My wife has always disagreed with my acts of kindness, saying good deeds never pay off.”

“But seeing me with the fifty Spirit Stones, she got excited too, finally accepted it, thinking that there are indeed rewards for good deeds.”

“We then took out twenty Spirit Stones as funding, specifically to treat hunters wounded on Snow Mountain for free. This group was saved by us from Snow Mountain, and upon knowing that we were treating them for free, and that we were just ordinary hunters, they assumed we had a large stash of Spirit Stones. No matter how we explained, they wouldn’t listen.”

“…”

Fat Long looked disapprovingly at the seven or eight strong men from ‘Changbai Mountain Team’ inside the stone house, “Aren’t there also seven or eight of you? These people haven’t fully recovered from their injuries yet, and their Cultivation is roughly the same. It’s not like seven or eight of you fighting more than a dozen people is completely hopeless, right?”

“Why were you beaten like this?”

The bald man shook his head bitterly, “Hunters kill demon beasts, not people. At first, we didn’t want to kill anyone. Everyone’s struggle is hard, we just wanted to talk it out, but… they suddenly attacked when we weren’t paying attention, and we lost.”

“Very well.”

Chen Qiu nodded, then turned around and dropped another two hundred Spirit Stones for the man, whispering, “Unless something unexpected happens, I will not pass by Desperate Town again within my lifetime. Don’t expect an Immortal to fall from the sky again.”

“With these two hundred Spirit Stones, our karmic ties are now settled.”

“You deal with these people yourself.”

After saying this, Chen Qiu turned and left with Fat Long and others. Being too soft-hearted on Xuantian Continent means not surviving; if you don’t die today, you probably will tomorrow. All he could do was this much.

A Buddha heart and lightning methods, one cannot exist without the other.

Only then did he have the qualification to do good deeds.

…

After Chen Qiu and his companions had left, those ferocious and strong men were now severely injured by Chen Qiu’s might, lying on the ground continuously moaning in pain. Meanwhile, several members of the Changbai Mountain Team angrily grabbed their long knives and were about to kill everyone outside.

“Stop!”

At that moment, the bearded man suddenly spoke up with a complex expression, “Don’t act rashly. After all, no one on our side has died. They tried to kill us because they harbored evil thoughts. If we kill them too, how are we any different from them?”

“Let them go.”

“Get lost, and never come back to Desperate Town again!”

The Changbai Mountain Team members, ready to strike, were stunned into disbelief, “Boss, letting them go like this, they’ll surely come back once they’ve recovered!”

“This is surely releasing a tiger back into the forest!”

“Let it be.”

The bearded man shook his head, his pupils revealing a trace of struggle as he rasped, “We all have it tough, they resorted to robbing us because they had no other choice, and they also have families to feed.”

“They don’t deserve to die.”

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The bald strong man on the ground, severely injured and struggling to stand up with the help of his brothers, looked towards the bearded man and trembled, “You are a good person… there will be good karma… We won’t come again.”

But deep in his eyes, a hint of resentment flashed.

He couldn’t believe that the Immortal would always be there to protect him.

Only then did this group staggeringly walk towards the outskirts of the town.

However—

Not long after they departed, an overwhelming surge of Spiritual Energy enveloped them all, and as the Spiritual Energy tightened, these men all turned into a mist of blood floating mid-air.

The one who made the move was naturally Chen Qiu.

…

“…”

Meanwhile, Chen Qiu stood expressionlessly on the Snow Mountain looking towards Desperate Town, silent and saying nothing.

The bearded man had dug him out from the Snow Mountain and used the Spirit Stones he had left behind to aid other injured hunters. Up to this point, there were no issues; the world had both good and bad people.

Some people like to do good deeds.

They like the feeling of helping others, liking the sensation that others improve because of them—that’s quite normal.

But—

This bearded man, who had these criminals that had beaten, kicked, and verbally abused his own wife and brothers and had nearly killed him, could still spare their lives.

That was not normal.

This was no longer the thinking of a normal person, even someone very compassionate wouldn’t simply let these people go.

It’s not something that can be summed up simply by the term “kind-hearted.”